Based in Cardiff, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown, battling against the impossible in a highly volatile underworld of savage aliens and monsters whilst trying to maintain their everyday lives.

Gwen Cooper is initially an outsider, whose first, chance meeting with Torchwood at the scene of a brutal murder sparks within her a burning curiosity to get to the truth.

Torchwood is a British television science fiction and crime drama created by Russell T. Davies and starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles dealing with the machinations and activities of the fictional Torchwood Institute.

Torchwood is written by Russell T Davies and Chris Chibnall, with contributing writers including PJ Hammond, Toby Whithouse and Helen Raynor.

Torchwood was actually the name used as a security measure to disguise preview tapes of the first episodes of the new Doctor Who to stop them falling into the hands of DVD pirates when they were moved from Wales to BBC headquarters.

Torchwood is a massive coup for BBC Three, and a major commitment û it's the biggest drama we've ever had on the channel.

While staying at Torchwood House, the Scottish estate of Sir Robert MacLeish, the Queen was attacked by a werewolf, in reality an alien intelligence that planned to infect her with its consciousness by biting her.

The activities of the Torchwood Institute in the 20th century have not yet been revealed, although the organisation was public enough in 1953 for a police Inspector to be aware of it (The Idiot's Lantern).

In 2012, Torchwood is public enough to be mentioned in a television broadcast during the London 2012 Olympics (Fear Her).

The sets are incredible, especially the HUB (Torchwoods secret base under Millennium Square) it's a large cavernous space with high-tec work stations, a firing range (where we discover Gwen is a crack shot), a morgue and dungeons where Torchwood's resident monster the "Weevil" lives (played as always by Dr Who's brilliant monster-man Paul Casey).

Anyway, with little to no Torchwood news to discuss (bar a short interview on sci-fi wire which can be found here) I thought that I'd invest in some useless conversation, specifically on the subject of fan fiction.

The speculation is that she will be in charge of a London-based Torchwood who has gone a bit astray, in league with the Cybermen and such.

Torchwood is a British sci-fi crime thriller for adult audiences that will follow the adventures of a team of renegade investigators, led by the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman.

According to executive producer Russell T Davies, someone in the production office suggested that the tapes be labeled as Torchwood instead of Doctor Who to make them less likely to be stolen in transit by 'television pirates', and he liked the name so much that he kept it for the new show.

Torchwood is a BBC Wales production for BBC Three, written by Russell T Davies and Chris Chibnall, with contributing writers including P J Hammond and Toby Whithouse.

"Torchwood is a British sci-fi paranoid thriller, a cop show with a sense of humour," says Russell T Davies.

Set in modern-day Cardiff, Torchwood stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack from Doctor Who; it's in the Christmas special and second series of Doctor Who that the story of Torchwood — a renegade group of investigators — is seeded.

Production began earlier this month on the new Doctor Who spin off seriesTorchwood and producer Russell T. Davies revealed that the series has a somewhat darker and grittier feel to it than what you would see in Doctor Who.

Torchwood will star John Barrowman who will be reprising the role of 51st century con man Captain Jack Harkness that he originated in the first season of Doctor Who.

Torchwood also includes much of the same writing talent that has made the new series of Doctor Who a resounding success.

He said: "Torchwood will be a dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller cop show with a sense of humour - the X Files meets This Life," the latter a reference to the groundbreaking Nineties BBCdrama about a group of young lawyers in Bristol.

Torchwood will be shown next summer on BBC3 in 13 episodes, each lasting 45 minutes.

Torchwood is the latest morphing of one of the BBC's most famous shows, which first reached the screens in 1963, although the programme will be distinct from Doctor Who and no stories will directly cross over between the two projects.

Unbenownst to most travelers, Cardiff also is home to a rift in space-time which makes some form of space or time-travel slightly less difficult, and since 1869, a highly unusual number of, er, highly unusuals, have come to Cardiff.

Torchwood is a conspiracy game loosely based on the upcoming TorchwoodBBC Threeserial starring John Barrowman — because it has not aired yet we can just take the premise and ignore canon — there isn’t any.

If you have not heard of Torchwood, it is a spin-off of the recent “Doctor Who” television series — if you have not watched “Doctor Who” lately or at all — don’t worry, you won’t need to and in fact I encourage you to play anyway!

Torchwood, due some time in 2006, will be an adult-oriented drama, set in Cardiff and featuring Captain Jack Harkness, the character portrayed by John Barrowman who created such a splash in the latter half of the latest Who run — not least because of his willingness to sleep with every passing alien, regardless of gender.

The dominant character is Captain Jack Absolute (shades of Torchwood, perhaps), played with Hugh Laurie-like flair by Nicholas Boulton.

There he works with alien tecnology to fight aliens and humans, with a program called Torchwood that started thanks to Queen Vic (who is actually a werewolf) you’ll understaind more later in the series.

I could have easily missed Torchwood being referenced for the very first time if I had bought Volume 4 when it was released at the beginning of the month before the Torchwood announcement.

Outpost Gallifrey has learned that filming of the first series of Torchwood, the Doctor Who spinoff series starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, has been delayed until the summer, likely June or July.

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine confirms that James Hawes will no longer be the producer for the spin-offseries, with Russell T Davies saying that a replacement has been appointed and will be announced when the ink is dry on the contract.

It is found only in the chaparral and thickets in the very southernmost Rio Grande Plains and north along the Coastal Prairies and Marshes, often in sandy soils.

Texas torchwood is generally an understory shrub that can grow in semi-shade or sun.

Torchwoods are very tolerant of heat and drought, and because of this, plus their attractive foliage, long blooming period, fragrant flowers and value to wildlife, they are beginning to be used in landscaping in the southernmost part of the state.